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Article: "THE DINING ROOM' IS A TASTY MORSEL; A.R. GURNEY'S COMEDY GETS A DELIGHTFUL TURN AT APPLESEED PRODUCTIONS PRESENTATION.(Weekend)(Review)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2003
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Byline: Gloria Kilpatrick Contributing writer
In A.R. Gurney's "The Dining Room," Tony, played alternately by Lanny Freshman and Keith David Reeves, snaps photographs of and takes notes about Aunt Harriet's (JoAnne Simiele) dining room and all its finery.
He tells her that the dining room is a perfect setting for an anthropological study, his class project, of "various eating habits of a vanishing culture - the vanishing WASP of the Northeastern U.S."
Tony goes on to explain the vanishing culture's obsession with cleanliness, finger bowls and hints of aggression - "pistol knives for dinnerware."
If those dining room walls could talk and tell the story of ...